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Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 37m

I hope Miami counters it like Orlando has been… with even more rainbows throughout the community.

Julie @jaespy.bsky.social · 16d

Great job Seven Bites restaurant in Orlando, FL. 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

They can erase crosswalks but not private property.

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Gogopoet @gogopoet.bsky.social · 1h

Trans people have been organizing and fighting this crap since the 1890s. We'll keep fighting.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 1h

If memory serves, this was the crosswalk near the Pulse nightclub and they're bulldozing it because DeSantis is such a small man that he's turned it into a dick-measuring contest that he won't just walk away from, even if it means bulldozing a respectful memorial to a mass shooting.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2h

Governor Pritzker didn't ask for this or consent to it‼️ It's a violation of the state sovereignty of IL. ‼️

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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 5h

UNMASKED
IN 2029

ICE officers and agents, your identities will be known in 2029 if not sooner, and you will be convicted of assault and and kidnapping charges.

Derekmay. Bsky.Social

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 2h

It’s just after 10 A.M., and all four of my Senate committees are meeting—at once. First stop: the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Let’s get to work.

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1h

They’re stripping your rights one by one, and every time, they wave migrants around like a boogeyman.

Next thing you know, your rights are gone, your crops rot in the field, your job’s gone, your healthcare’s gone, all stolen through fear. When will you wake up?

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Sir Skeltal @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 38m

A lot of protesters have been fired for participating in the ICE protests here in portland. They've been fighting for over four months now without asking for anything in return, but they simply can't afford to keep up the fight without community support. Please share or donate!
gofund.me/d7379962

Donate to Help get ICE Out of Portland!, organized by Chandler Patey

We need your help to keep our city safe and get ICE Out of Portland. We literally ca… Chandler Patey needs your support for Help get ICE Out of Portland!

gofund.me

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M @habpipes.bsky.social · 41m

In Trumps America, Jesus can't take the wheel because he's locked up in the trunk of an ICE vehicle.

Derek Faraci @whwoolhat.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not a religious guy, but shooting a priest in the head sure seems like a really shitty thing to do.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Michael Huggins @michaelhugg2591.bsky.social · 40m

In Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom | National Catholic Reporter www.ncronline.org/news/chicago...

In Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom

Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as 'Love thy neighbor' and 'Who would Jes...

www.ncronline.org

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That little thorn in your fingertip @itsjustme2.bsky.social · 39m

This is all part of his goal to weaken America.

ICE riots will be nothing compared to the food riots, and he will be the one doling out food favors.

He will continue to be worse and worse. It gets him high.

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The End of the World Party, PhD @endoftheworldparty.bsky.social · 39m

ICE isn't corrupt, they're nazis doing what nazis do. It was always the purpose of ICE to ethnically cleanse America, but liberals and Democrats were fine with it for the last 20 years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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ChumpTrump @chumptrump.bsky.social · 41m

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Rob Israel @robisraelart.bsky.social · 1d

5 years ago a fly sat on Mike Pence’s head.
I also drew this immediately afterwards.👇

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Rob Israel @robisraelart.bsky.social · 18h

Donald Trump’s little Nazi Weasel Steven Miller that I drew 5 years ago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 42m

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 57m

You simply cannot understand American politics today without understanding what Christian nationalism and white Christian nationalism are. These are two of the most underdiscussed topics today. Follow @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social @robertpjones.bsky.social & others’ work on this.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 56m

José Ortega y Gasset:

"Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity. It was incredible that the human species should arrive at so noble an attitude, so paradoxical...It is not to be wondered at that this same humanity should soon appear eager to get rid of it."

open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

We Need Free-Speech Consistency

What you want for yourself, you have to grant to the other guy.

open.substack.com

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 55m

Fun fact: Cicero IL is where Dr. King's Chicago Freedom Movement was met with white protest in 1966. Now it's 89 percent Latino. The arc of the moral universe bends, that's for sure.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 55m

And we've already seen the transformative impacts of eliminating the fare when we won and implemented a historic fare free bus pilot on one line in each borough.

Ridership went up. Assaults on operators went down. And people saved money.

A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot

Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.

www.thenation.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 55m

How do we speed buses up? There are plenty of tools already in the city's toolbox.

Just look at the 14th St busway.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 58m

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h

"With its steady escalation of military force against its own citizens, this administration proves that the most immediate threat to our constitutional order is not on the streets.

It is coming from inside the White House."

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/federalism...

The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now

A training ground for the military?

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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